Tag Archives: Mark Steel

Award-winning comic Mark Steel on Keir, Keegan and cancer

Posted on October 15, 2026 by insidecroydon

Award-winning stand-up Mark Steel sits down with our columnist, Andrew Fisher, for a frank, wide-ranging and often hilarious interview, the latest podcast from the Inside Croydon ‘multiverse’. As our brief extract clip illustrates, the interview switches between the poignant and … Continue reading →

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Palace fury as Forest set to benefit from their UEFA demotion

Posted on July 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

Club chairman describes football rule-makers’ decision as ‘probably one of the greatest injustices that has ever happened in European football’ Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish was heading for New York for an emergency board meeting to decide whether he would … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace film festival under threat over council licences

Posted on June 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

The founder of one of the country’s most popular film festivals has branded Lambeth and Bromley councils “pathetic” and “short-sighted” over the threat to lumber his organisation with thousands of pounds of additional costs which could force the event to … Continue reading →

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No joke: Croydon comedian Steel reads the bans for Labour

Posted on September 10, 2016 by insidecroydon

Mark Steel, the stand-up comedian and broadcaster from Croydon who was barred from joining the Labour Party because of his support for another political group nearly a decade ago, has called for some Labour MPs to be banned for supporting … Continue reading →

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Mayor’s fundraising comedy night, Fairfield Halls, Apr 17

Posted on March 23, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Steel’s fond of his dirty old town. At least it’s not Swanley

Posted on February 13, 2014 by insidecroydon

BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, has been out on the town again, and found herself rolling in the aisles at the Ashcroft Theatre. But she picked herself up and dusted herself off just in time for comedian Mark Steel to … Continue reading →

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Watch out Gary Barlow MP: Mark Steel’s In Town in Croydon

Posted on January 14, 2014 by insidecroydon

When Mark Steel resigned from the Socialist Workers’ Party, he was declaimed for having a “kind of grandiose ignorance”, surely the only time that a Crystal Palace-supporting stand-up comedian has been accused of ignorance… Next month, Steel is In Town … Continue reading →

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